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(5) MigAiqan
Mac Nutt, who has worked for nearly a decade with an
oncol0gist and at the Cancer Center of a Michigan hospital,
testified that:
Doctors are still telling violently ill
_. patients to smoke marijuana to relieve their
nausea and vomiting and the patients are
still getting marijuana off the streets _ o o
Marijuana is being used medically, but not
legally. I know many do_s who quietly support
marijuanaes medical use° _;
John James Dunsmore, III, who is currently being
treated for cancer at a hospital in Denver and uses marijuana to
gain relief from the emesis_ testified that:
The doctor knows I sm smoking marijuana° If
there was .any way in the world he could
'
prescribe marijuana to me I know he would.
All the nurses know l'm smokinq marijuana in
_he hospital. They have never told me not to
smoke -_ except in bed _- and I know by the
way some of them smile_that they know what
.. I'm doing and approve. _/
And JohnUs father testified:
The doctor shared my concerns and noted that
if I could find out how he could legally
.,, prescribe marijuana to John he would ....
Over a period of times it became clear that
the nurses and other staff had no objections
to John's smoking in his room b_$_e and
after he received chemotherapy. ._"
317./ Affidavit of Mac Nutt_ _ 96_ 97.
__i_/ Affidavit of John James Dunsmore _ III, _ 75.
3_i_/ Affidavit of John J. Dunsmore, Jr., I_ 25, 30.
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